So tonight ate out at a popular buffet restaurant, and the dessert combination I put together turned into a real winner. It was a mixture of a Middle Eastern dessert called UmAli, and an apple pie without the crust. UmAli is almost like a Middle Eastern variation of bread pudding with coconut and raisins added to it. Tonight when I by accident arrived on a Website for apple cobbler recipes, realized this was what I had put together for my dessert. Totally delicious and a real winner. I probably could have added some ice cream, but after a very generous helping of butter chicken curry the Umali and apple pie mixture was my limit.

This is what a cobbler looks like. I think the creamy and fragrant UmAli was much better for an accompaniment with the apple: